Kollam

Kollam, previously Quilon, is a city in southern , . West and slightly north of the town some 5 km lies a beach, on the north end of which are various European colonial-era relics, including the ruins of a fort and a few churches.
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  • City with about 397,000 residents
  • …was formerly known as “Quilon”
  • Description: city in Kerala, India
  • Also known as
    “Coilum”
    “Coylan”
    “Coylang”
    “Desinganadu”
    “Kollam, India”
    “Kollam, Kerala”
    “Kullamalai”
    “Land of Cashewnuts”
    “Tarshish”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kollam Junction and Kollam Beach.
railway station is an NSG–2 category…
Surajram Kumaravel, CC BY 2.0.
, also known as Mahatma Gandhi Beach…
Pranav Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a …

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tangasseri and Andamukkam.
Kumbalam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Thangassery is a heavily populated beach…
Arunvrparavur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Aandamukkam is a neighbourhood of Kollam city in , .
Arunvrparavur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Ashramam is one of the prime locations in Kollam city of , .

Kollam

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Latitude
8.8871° or 8° 53′ 13″ north
Longitude
76.5907° or 76° 35′ 26″ east
UN/LOCODE
IN QUI
Open location code
6JWRVHPR+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245582090
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1259091
Wiki­data ID
Q321475

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In Other Languages

From Angika to Yue Chinese—“Kollam” goes by many names.
  • Angika: “कोल्लम”
  • Arabic: “كولام”
  • Aragonese: “Kollam”
  • Assamese: “কোল্লম”
  • Asturian: “Kollam”
  • Basque: “Kollam”
  • Bengali: “কোল্লাম”
  • Bhojpuri: “कोल्लम”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোল্লাম”
  • Catalan: “Desinganadu”
  • Catalan: “Kol·lam”
  • Catalan: “Quilon”
  • Cebuano: “Kollam”
  • Chinese: “俱兰”
  • Chinese: “俱蘭”
  • Chinese: “奎隆”
  • Chinese: “小葛兰”
  • Chinese: “故临”
  • Czech: “Kollam”
  • Danish: “Kollam”
  • Dutch: “Kollam”
  • Dutch: “Quilon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولام”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه كولام”
  • Esperanto: “Kolamo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kollam”
  • Finnish: “Kollam”
  • French: “Kollam”
  • French: “Quilon”
  • Georgian: “კოლამი”
  • German: “Kollam”
  • German: “Quilon”
  • Greek: “Κολλάμ”
  • Gujarati: “કોલ્લમ”
  • Hebrew: “וקולאם”
  • Hebrew: “כולאם”
  • Hindi: “कोल्लम”
  • Hungarian: “Kollam”
  • Indonesian: “Kollam”
  • Irish: “Kollam”
  • Italian: “Kollam”
  • Japanese: “コーラム”
  • Japanese: “コッラム”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇರಳ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಯ್ಲಾಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಯ್ಲಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲ್ಲಂ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವಿಲಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗೋಡಂಬಿ ಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kannada: “ತಾರ್ಶಿಶ್”
  • Kannada: “ದೇಸಿಂಗನಾಡು”
  • Kannada: “ಭಾರತ”
  • Kashmiri: “کولام”
  • Korean: “콜람”
  • Korean: “퀼론”
  • Ladin: “Kollam”
  • Latvian: “Kolama”
  • Literary Chinese: “俱蘭”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolamas”
  • Macedonian: “Килон”
  • Macedonian: “Колам”
  • Magahi: “कोल्लम्”
  • Magahi: “क्विलोन्”
  • Maithili: “कोल्लम”
  • Malagasy: “Kollam”
  • Malay: “Kollam”
  • Malayalam: “കശുവണ്ടി വ്യവസായത്തിന്റെ ഈറ്റില്ലം”
  • Malayalam: “കൊല്ലം നഗരം”
  • Malayalam: “കൊല്ലം”
  • Malayalam: “ക്വയ്‍ലോൺ”
  • Malayalam: “താർഷിഷ്”
  • Malayalam: “ദേശിംഗനാട്”
  • Malayalam: “വേണാട്”
  • Marathi: “कोल्लम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kollam”
  • Nepali: “कोल्लम”
  • Newari: “कोल्लम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kollam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Quilon”
  • Norwegian: “Kollam”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kollam”
  • Oriya: “କୋଲ୍ଲାମ୍”
  • Pampanga: “Kollam”
  • Persian: “کولام”
  • Polish: “Kollam”
  • Polish: “Quilon”
  • Portuguese: “Coulão”
  • Portuguese: “Kollan”
  • Portuguese: “Quilon”
  • Russian: “Квилон”
  • Russian: “Коллам”
  • Sanskrit: “कोल्लम्”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱞᱞᱟᱢ”
  • Serbian: “Kolam”
  • Serbian: “Kollam”
  • Serbian: “Колам”
  • Sinhala: “කොල්ලම්”
  • Slovenian: “Kollam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کولام”
  • Spanish: “Kollam”
  • Swedish: “Desinganadu”
  • Swedish: “Kollam”
  • Swedish: “Quilon”
  • Tamil: “கொல்லம்”
  • Telugu: “కొల్లాం”
  • Thai: “โกลลัม”
  • Turkish: “Kollam”
  • Ukrainian: “Коллам”
  • Urdu: “کولام”
  • Urdu: “کولم”
  • Venetian: “Kollam”
  • Vietnamese: “Kollam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kollam”
  • Western Panjabi: “کولام”
  • Yue Chinese: “故臨”

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